Friday the 13th What Victor Miller’s Win Means For The Franchise’s Future

Friday the 13th: What Victor Miller’s Win Means For The Franchise’s Future

The lawsuit over the rights to Friday the 13th has been settled, with Victor Miller claiming victory. Here’s what his win means for Jason’s future.

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Friday the 13th What Victor Miller’s Win Means For The Franchise’s Future

The ongoing legal battle for the rights to Friday the 13th have finally been settled, and here’s what Victor Miller’s win means for the future of the franchise. The long-running slasher series has been stuck in limbo for over a decade, during which time the rights for the first Friday film became embroiled in a prolonged lawsuit. After several years of minimal movement with the case, a verdict has finally been delivered, bringing Jason Voorhees one crucial step closer to returning to the big screen.

When the original Friday the 13th first entered development in the late 1970s, screenwriter Victor Miller was hired onto the project to provide the first pass at the script. While plenty of changes happened with the story before the film went before cameras in 1980, Miller’s basic plot remained intact: a group of young counselors are killed off one at a time by a crazed mother who watched her unattended son drown in the camp’s lake decades before. The iconic tropes that would later come to define the series, as well as characters like Alice and Pamela Voorhees, were all products of Miller’s script.

Several years after the release of the 2009 Friday the 13th remake, Miller filed a lawsuit against the Friday series’ producer Sean S. Cunningham in an attempt to reclaim the legal rights to the original 1980 film. Thanks to a provision of U.S. copyright law that allows the original author of a work to regain the rights to that work after a period of 35 years, Miller was able to stake his claim to the series, but an appeal filed by Cunningham in 2018 (along with several other lawsuits filed against various studios) effectively halted any hopes of making a 13th Friday the 13th movie. However, after years of waiting and worrying by Friday aficionados, a decision has finally been made. Victor Miller is now set to legally reclaim the domestic rights to the original Friday the 13th’s screenplay, and this could have a massive impact on the future of the series.

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It’s no secret that Victor Miller dislikes the Friday the 13th sequels. Over the years, Miller has revealed that not only has he not even watched the sequels, but that he is fundamentally opposed to the concept that made the sequels so popular: Jason being the killer. In the original Friday the 13th, Jason’s mother Pamela Voorhees was the killer, and her murders were driven by the trauma of seeing her son drown. Victor always saw the story he helped write as a revenge story about a mother, and considered Jason to be a victim.

With this in mind, a potential new Miller-produced Friday the 13th movie would likely involve a complete rethink of the franchise. With Miller being so vehemently opposed to the idea of Jason being the series’ killer, it’s possible that a new film made with his involvement might jettison Jason altogether, and perhaps remake the original film with the insane Pamela Voorhees once again at the forefront. The film could also be a prequel, telling Pamela’s story while only featuring Jason as a young child. Of course, it’s also possible that Miller could bow to fan demand and make a new Jason-centric Friday the 13th film, but with so many questions and legal uncertainties still plaguing the franchise, audiences will likely still have a long time to wait before another film is produced.

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